The relevant part said something along the lines of "through proper entity selection, you can mitigate most SE tax exposure."

Get your house on the MLS, and let a relatively new agent hold the open house - that should get you some decent exposure without having to list with an agent.

Basically, you're lowering the stock portfolios exposure to the real estate market due to the exposure in real property.  

CAP rates are a crummy way to value residential real estate and an equally crummy measure of financial performance for all of the reasons mentioned above and more ... you may disagree, but since the only other person out there that regularly disagreed with you on this was kicked off this site for doing so, and just about every other turnkey operator seem to be in the business of perpetuating it as a metric to try to artificially pump up the attractiveness of their offerings and scam newbies, please forgive me if I try to offer some counterbalance and perspective to other new investors who would otherwise not have any other exposure to such radical ideas as using CAP rates the way they were designed to be used by the professionals who use them.

You should be able to take usual and customary deductions to reduce your tax exposure and still use much of the income you receive  for a loan.

Not a sales pitch, just saying that we have a lot of exposure to the ocala market.The ocala market remains red hot.

Despite that, they want to diversify their portfolios and have exposure to the sector.

If anyone understands the liability exposure attached to each of these activities, it’s us!

I didn't see the need for another RE agent to market my property.. all I needed was MLS exposure and I could handle the rest.

For the former, of course start with a strong insurance firewall, then you have to judge how many LLCs you need based on equity exposure that can be borne, as well as the incremental costs of maintaining the LLCs.You are trying in this case to protect the rentals from your mother's personal liability, more so than the other way around, since her net worth is more so in the rentals (at least I think, based on what you said).